Last week I wrote about the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon, in August. (If you missed it, click here.) For a week, Portland was chock-full of superheroes. Everyone I met was, in a word, awesome. But there were plenty…

When you’re writing about good versus evil and superhero powers like telepathy, telekinesis and teleporting, it’s pretty easy to forget that there are every day superheroes out there. They don’t wear capes and costumes. They wear smiles. They don’t read…